A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

There will alwaysa glimmer in thosewho have been through the dark.

Maybe we ran out of words, maybe we don't know what to say, maybe we both want to go our separate ways, maybe we want to speak up but we're afraid. All I know is this feeling isn't fading away.

If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

It's an individual sport, but collectively everybody shares the same motto that Ironman stands for: anything is possible.

There is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.

He knew he was Joe DiMaggio, and he knew what that meant to the country.

If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.